God I wish One Piece was thoroughly gate-kept. It deals with many, many big issues but instead of focusing on those themes these people always want to break it down into "Oda drew trannies accurate to reality 10 years before the age of aggressive PC, yikes sweaty.", "Oda is sexist and problematic in his portrayl of wxmyn" or dumb bull-shit co-opting like that actual, certified retard Hasan claiming One Piece is socialist... somehow.
The Yamato stuff is even more indicative of how little they actually care about One Piece and it's characters because in the same fucking arc we have Kiku who is actually trans and not portrayed disparagingly, and yet he is ignored by these weirdos because he isn't a powerful character with big tits they can jerk off to. I want to take a hammer to these peoples head to drive it into these moron's skulls that Yamato's personality is a fucking gag, but I suppose their entire belief system is also a joke so it may be hard to see.
Like all things they saw One Piece's organic rise and when it started to become more popular in the west they just had to try to twist it to their narrative with no respect for Oda or this masterpiece that is his life's work. It just bums me out compared to the mid-2000s when I started following the series and the smaller community could appreciate the series for what it actually was and not some twisted lens that you have to view everything through.